Hello! Eleanor here, with the first proper post, and the first independent eatery review! On Saturday, we went for what was supposed to be a coffee and a cake, and ended up having a full blown brunch at Tea And Little Cakes!
We stumbled across this little place on Timber Hill after having a slight disagreement about the quickest way to get to John Lewis. I was the winner, so we set off up Timber Hill, and thank goodness we did!
Tea and Little Cakes
17 Timber Hill
Norwich
Norfolk
NR1 3JZ
The restaurant has a lovely friendly feel about it, and was almost full when we arrived. The decor is a mix of modern and contemporary, with painted white beams, and farmhouse style dresser and tables. The kitchen at the back of the restaurant is open plan, and it was really good to see your food being cooked right in front of you! The menu's are super simple which I liked, just printed on card and clipped to a wooden clip board. I was also quite amused to see they have the same Bodum salt and pepper grinders we have a home...simple minds hey!
Tea and Little Cakes, or TALC, operates a full waitress service, and ours was very friendly, we ordered a green tea and a lemonade, and I was chuffed when the tea arrived in a pot with a vintage tea cup and saucer.
TALC serves a really good range of proper coffee, plenty of unusual soft drinks (like the yummy Luscombe sicilian lemonade we had), and Tea Pigs tea. The green one is one of the best I've had.
We then ordered our food. I went for scrambled eggs on sourdough (though I was really tempted by the Eggs Benedict), and D went for the TALC Big Brekkie.
The scrambled eggs were perfect! Not too wet, not dried out, and with a good amount of pepper. They were made even better when I pinched the hollandaise that came with D's big brekkie!
Breakfast perfection I think you'll agree! 2 sausages, bacon, grilled tomato, mushrooms, 2 poached eggs, TALC baked beans and sourdough, with hollandaise sauce. The homemade baked beans have totally inspired us to have a go at making our own, as I certainly won't be going back to Heinz in a hurry!
They also had scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, the TALC veggie brekkie, beans or egg on sourdough toast, and croissants and pan au chocolat, oh and gluten free bread should you require it!
As you can imagine, we quickly gobbled the lot up...
D even ate his poached eggs, which until now he has maintained he doesn't like!
I really loved the whole feeling of this little place. There were elderly couples, families, friends meeting for a drink, and kids in high chairs all happily eating breakfast together. When I went to the counter to pay, the chef came over to ask how we had found our food, all the staff were really friendly. I had a nose at the cakes available on the way out, and particularly like the look of a chocolate and Guinness number, and the HUGE croissants. We also flipped the menu over to have a peek at the evening offerings, and I can safely say we'll be returning for dinner very soon!
Just a quick note from the other half really. Sausage = Good, Bacon = Good, Baked Beans = amazing = poached eggs = good, sicilian lemonade = good, decor = good, staff = good, TALC = AMAZING. Thoroughly recommend this eatery in every way and I am excited to go back for cake and a meal. One thing, though, and I am being picky...the idea of TALC cooked food is a bit off-putting but as I said, I am being super picky and you would have to be a little silly to think anything would be cooked with talc. Seriously hope the rest of the year's finds are as good as this one!
If you would like to visit Tea and Little Cakes, and we highly recommend you do, you can find it here:
Tea and Little Cakes
17 Timber Hill
Norwich
Norfolk
NR1 3JZ
Much Love Eleanor and D
xxx
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